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Audio Compression

Audio Compression. Usha Sree CMSC 691M 10/12/04. Motivation. Efficient Storage Streaming Interactive Multimedia Applications. Compression Goals. Reduced bandwidth Make decoded signal sound as close as possible to original signal Lowest Implementation Complexity Robust Scalable.

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Audio Compression

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  1. Audio Compression Usha Sree CMSC 691M 10/12/04

  2. Motivation • Efficient Storage • Streaming • Interactive Multimedia Applications

  3. Compression Goals • Reduced bandwidth • Make decoded signal sound as close as possible to original signal • Lowest Implementation Complexity • Robust • Scalable

  4. Compression Techniques • Voc File Compression • Linear Predictive Coding • Mu-law compression • Differential Pulse Code Modulation • MPEG

  5. MPEG • Moving Picture Experts Group • Part of a multiple standard for • Video compression • Audio compression • Audio, Video and Data synchronization to an aggregate bit rate of1.5 Mbit/sec

  6. MPEG Audio Compression • Physically Lossy compression algorithm • Perceptually lossless, transparent algorithm • Exploits perceptual properties of human ear • Psychoacoustic modeling • MPEG Audio Standard ensures inter-operability, defines coded bit stream syntax, defines decoding process and guarantees decoder’s accuracy.

  7. MPEG Audio Features • No assumptions about the nature of the audio source • Exploitation of human auditory system perceptual limitations • Removal of perceptually irrelevant parts of audio signal • It offers a sampling rate of 32, 44.1 and 48 kHz. • Offers a choice of three independent layers

  8. MPEG Audio Feautures cont. • All three layers allow single chip real-time decoder implementation • Optional Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) error detection • Ancillary data may be included in the bit stream • Also features such as random access, audio fast forwarding and audio reverse are possible.

  9. Overview • Quantization, the key to MPEG audio compression • Transparent, perceptually lossless compression • No distinction between original and 6-to-1 compressed audio clips

  10. The Polyphase Filter Bank • Key component common to all layers • Divides the audio signal into 32 equal-width frequency subbands • The filters provide good time and reasonable frequency resolution • Critical bands associated with psychoacoustic models

  11. Psychoacoustics • The aim is to remove irrelevant parts of the audio signal • The human auditory system is unable to hear quantization noise under conditions of auditory masking • Masking occurs whenever a strong signal makes a neighborhood of weaker audio signals imperceptible

  12. Noise masking threshold • Human ear resolving power is frequency dependent • Noise masking threshold, at any frequency, depends only on the signal energy within a limited bandwidth neighborhood that frequency

  13. The Psychoacoustic Model • Analyzes the audio signal and computes the amount of noise masking as a function of frequency • The encoder decides how best to represent the input signal with a minimum number of bits

  14. Basic Steps • Time align audio data • Convert audio to frequency domain representation • Process spectral values into tonal and non-tonal components • Apply a spreading function • Set a lower bound for threshold values • Find the threshold values for each subband • Calculate the signal to mask ratio

  15. MPEG Audio Layer I • Simplest coding • Suitable for bit rates above 128 kbits/sec per channel • Each frame contains header, an optional CRC error check word and possibly ancillary data. • Eg. Philips Digital Compact Cassette

  16. MPEG Audio Layer II • Intermediate complexity • Bit rates around 128 kbits/sec per channel • Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) • Synchronized Video and Audio on CD-ROM • Forms frames of 1152 samples per audio channel.

  17. MPEG Audio Layer III • Based on Layer I&II filter banks • Most complex coding • Best audio quality • Bit rates around 64 kbits/sec per channel • Suitable for audio transmission over ISDN • Compensates filter deficiencies by processing outputs with a two different MDCT blocks.

  18. Layer III enhancements • Alias reduction • Non uniform quantization • Scalefactor bands • Entropy coding of data values • Use of a “bit reservoir”

  19. MPEG and the Future? • MPEG-1: Video CD and MP3. • MPEG-2: Digital Television set top boxes and DVD • MPEG-4: Fixed and mobile web • MPEG-7: description and search of audio and visual content • MPEG-21: Multimedia Framework

  20. References • Digital Audio Compression -http://das.iocon.com/res/docs/pdf/Digital_Audio_Compression_01oct1993DTJA03P8.pdf • MPEG Audio Standard-www.cs.columbia.edu/~coms6181/slides/6R/mpegaud.pdf

  21. Thank You

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